· Buggy Smart Meters Open Door to Power Grid Botnet

Grid-burrowing worm only the beginning

By Dan Goodin in San Francisco
The Register
12th June 2009 18:02 GMT

Just as one smart credit cards were distributed it was found out that they could be scanned by anyone walking within ten feet of the card holders wallet, and I-Phones and cell phones can be virused hacked and wormed so too now it comes to light that “Smart Meters” that are to be deployed throughout California have been found to be able to be hacked and can have viruses and worms placed in their programing so as to bill you for others electric use.

It would seem that all computerized devices are waiting for the day when a universal code shall be sent out to shut everything down from ones phones, cars, electricity, water, food distrubution networks, so that everything all at once shall cease causing untold of hunger, sickness and death. To fully grasp what we are suggesting here one only need to look back at Hurricane Katrina in New Oleans where if left to local resources for months there would be no food, water or power. The death toll if things had been left to local resources would have been in the tens of thousands for that one city.

Imagine of you would this occurring along the whole east coast or in all of California and its neighboring states, or in the whole of Europe. Christ advised his disciples to pray that the time of the beast and the Great Shoa would not begin in winter, not just because of the cold, but for the lack of food and resources that could be gathered from local fields to help sustain the population.

Jesus said when that hour comes flee to the mountains and the wilderness places. Christians need to know wild edible plants, and be prepared with basic emergency survival equipment ready for that day and hour. Plans from where you live to the mountains or wilderness areas should be considered so one knows were they are going with old fashioned maps and compasses as GPS shall fail. By the word of the Lord we have warned of extraordinary things that are to come in the EU, the bible specifically warns those in Israel what is to come in that day and hour but what of Christians in all other nations and on other continants around the world? The bible declares that all nations and peoples shall be compelled to take the mark, the symbol, and the number of the beast for with out it no man can buy or sell. What then will you eat? What then shall you drink? What then shall you pay rent or taxes to have a roof over your head?

Jesus declared that we could know the times and the seasons of these events and so commanded that we should be prepared against that day and hour. Remaining hidden in the wilderness for three and a half years is no small feat. The food clean drinking water, the shelter clothing the heating the medicine to care for one person would be dump truck fulls. For a family it would be a semi full. The logisitics are impossible to prepare for the scope of such an event, all that can be taken according to Christ’s words is what one can carry on one’s back, as Christ describes fleeing on foot with no time to gather anything.

One can not carry much more than a weeks food supply unless they plan to eat ramen noodles and even so at best one could carry only a few weeks supply along with other gear that is necessary. When Katrina hit the busses were shut down, the highways closed the bridges closed and all that was left was to walk out of New Orleans on foot. So shall it be in that day.

New electricity meters being rolled out to millions of homes and businesses are riddled with security bugs that could bring down the power grid, according to a security researcher who plans to demonstrate several attacks at a security conference next month.

The so-called smart meters for the first time provide two-way communications between electricity users and the power plants that serve them. Prodded by billions of dollars from President Obama's economic stimulus package, utilities in Seattle, Houston, Miami, and elsewhere are racing to install them as part of a plan to make the power grid more efficient. Their counterparts throughout Europe are also spending heavily on the new technology.